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1 ! page 1 STONE MIDDLE SCHOOL ATTAIN APPLICATION EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PHILOSOPHY DEFINITION technology tekˈnäləjē noun the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. SUPPORT The priority for technology (and the technology staff) at Stone is to support learning. EQUIP Endeavor to find the best (most effective, efficient) tool for the job. TRAIN Everyone is a lifelong learner and should have the access and opportunity for both formal and informal training as needed. INTEGRATE Technology shouldn t be a separate subject, but the use of tools and procedures to learn with in every lesson, every day. VISION Technology shouldn t be a separate subject More than computers... At Stone Middle School, when we talk about technology, it is much more than computers we think of technology as tools that amplify our senses and extend our capabilities. For instance the human eye can see that skin is not perfectly smooth. However, with the use of a tool designed to magnify our skin (microscope), proper illumination, a tool called scale bar, and a procedure of counting a section of skin for estimation, one can determine number of pores, hair follicles, their size and color. Technology allows us to: Do things not possible with our natural faculties alone Do things more effectively and efficiently Do things to a higher standard of excellence Historically, educational technology has been viewed primarily as a better way to get things done: keeping grades, publishing progress reports, creating and revising worksheets and assessments, delivering content to the students, etc. This is certainly a valid and valuable use of technology; However, in the midst of these administrative uses of technology, Stone Middle School intends to focus on student access to technology and on students acquiring technology skills and knowledge. TECHNOLOGY IS A TOOL FOR LEARNING AND COMMUNICATING.

2 ! page 2 SUPPORTING NETS-T STANDARD 1 Project-Based Learning is a big part of what we do at Stone Middle School. For the past two Facilitate & Inspire Student Learning & Creativity decades, Stone has been known for the elective course science research. Our science research team is one of the best in the nation and there are few more fitting examples of project-based learning than science research. Year after year, Stone has more place awards, more Best of Show awards, more State contenders than any other middle school. Although many do not see science as an art, creativity is huge part of problem solving and experimentation. A large part of that success is the integral daily use of technology throughout the course. Stone science research students have pioneered digital video editing, GIS (Graphic Information Systems) with GPS data, use of Google Sketchup, high tech publishing with Pages and Word, as well as measuring and imaging technologies. This technology focus often spills over into the regular science classes. Stone is often involved in national and international collaborations that inspire student engagement and learning. Some of these are extended events that take place over several months, such as Rock Our World (ROW). ROW gave six of Stone s classes of students an opportunity to exchange Garageband projects with students in other states and countries. As they passed these project files from country to country, they added more and more loops of music- with a specific instrument category (strings, percussion, etc.). At the same time, the classes were doing a Challenge-Based-Learning Activity: What can we as students do to encourage tolerance on our campus and in the world? Video conferencing with other states and countries during this project helped the students gain a wider perspective while learning about cultural differences. Three teachers at our school have developed Thinkquest Projects (an online collaborative tool focusing on 21st Century skills). These projects have addressed an essential question regarding topics in Renewable Energy, Short Stories, and Latin Culture. The technology specialist frequently joins the classroom teacher in the lab to introduce digital skills, collaborative and planning techniques such as photo editing, using Web 2.0 skills and resources like digital concept mapping with cmap, Etherpad, Wikis, and our content management system (Studywiz). There is not enough room here to detail the many ways creativity is encouraged at Stone. (Please view Tab 12 to see more examples of how Stone teachers truly inspire student learning and creativity.)

3 ! page 3 The first part of designing and developing digital-age learning experiences and assessments is to review our educational goals and determine how to best reach them. Technology for technology s sake is sometimes valuable for the aspect of novelty, but the learning objectives must still be the focus. In all training, co-teaches, workshops and tutorials, we frame technology as a tool & sometimes a vehicle to obtain a deeper understanding or assess a student s understanding. A longtime goal for our school is to provide appropriate and ubiquitous access to these tools, so that there is the least amount of friction to get going with the tool. That translates into five mobile labs, three open project labs, six classrooms with a computer for each student, ten classrooms with minilabs and 16 computers in our media center. The labs are managed using an internet calendar system that each of our teachers is subscribed to. We have actively pursued maintaining current site licenses for important software, so that nearly all of our computers have software for photo editing, presentations, web authoring, page layout, concept mapping, video editing, audio composition and editing; as well as Google Earth, ComicLife, Flash, Fireworks and many other state of the art programs. We also have specialized licenses in the arts and science research. Stone understands the difference between databases and spreadsheets. We have about a dozen Filemaker Pro users/developers that manage relational databases for various projects including science research paperwork, inventory, band loan forms, student discipline, etc. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences & Assessments To empower teachers at Stone to deliver digital, project-based student activities, we have been piloting a learning management system called Studywiz utilized by thousands of schools globally. All of our students, their courses and teachers are set up in this system to minimize confusion and permit direct and differentiated digital curriculum using 15 different activity tools. As one of the first schools to site license an electronic gradebook back in the 80 s, Stone has aggressively participated in the piloting, adoption and implementation of computerized assessments for Brevard County serving on many district committees. We have pioneered mobile assessment on PDA s for rubrics that are student performance based, including our own long form teacher assessment so that our administrators could perform teacher evaluations and have it in their printer when they got back to their office. A dozen administrators and teachers of Exceptional Education students are currently piloting a web-based assessment tool (A Deeper View ) on ipod Touches. This helps the teacher code, compile and analyze behavior and skill development from a mobile device. It provides documentation that can be used in student portfolios. SUPPORTING NETS-T STANDARD 2

4 ! page 4 An important part of being an educator is the willingness to show others the authenticity and relevance of the learning/skill acquisition by demonstrating how that educator uses this personally. There are many axioms that reflect the don t tell me, show me idea about education, but there are other reasons that our teachers need to be modeling digital workflow and learning: 1. they need to understand it themselves before they will feel confident showing students. 2. they must experience its value, quality, and efficacy to be passionate about teaching with it. As Life-Long-Learners, Stone s teachers are voluntarily forming teams and developing departmental polices and practices regarding the use of technologies. Some teams are agreeing to use classroom webpages to publish homework, class policies, and special activities. Others have chosen to move their content and calendars over to Edline. True digital-age learning is informed by research, and educational research has shown a real need for multimodal, multimedia, and social learning activities. Today s students are very different in the way that they collect information, engage each other and construct their learning. Stone is highly invested in helping develop a classroom culture and global connections complimented by digital communications. We regularly share new ways of achieving learning through Web 2.0, Social Networking, and other network based tools that were not on our radar a decade ago. Stone is unique in pioneering the extensive use of the network for digital workflows. Today, about a twenty teachers and nearly all the students at Stone are familiar with using Studywiz, a K12 content management system similar to Blackboard (used by universities). These teachers and students will be better prepared to offer or take hybrid or fully online classes such as FLVS. Because of this exposure, teachers find it easier to direct students through online research, webquests, online mysteries, Web 2.0 resources, and to collect student work digitally online. Here students have a safe place to practice social networking and create their digital footprint. Based on our annual teaching staff technology needs survey, the majority of our teachers are using (on a daily basis) the 21st Century Classroom Equipment installed in each of Stone s classrooms during the school year. We received many favorable comments, regarding the ease of teaching with color, multimedia and the assurance that everyone could hear equally well throughout the classroom. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning SUPPORTING NETS-T STANDARD 3

5 ! page The concept of digital citizenship and responsibility is a difficult one to deal with in a systemic fashion. In the recent years, Stone Middle School has attempted to address this in several different ways. In the early (networked) years we would have annual assemblies with each grade level. We would be address approximately 50 students per period for two days at the beginning of the school year. The technology specialist would provide a general overview of network privacy, social etiquette and responsibility in what was intended to be an entertaining presentation with special visual effects, sound and current social references. In order to adhere to the project-based constructivist learning model of education (and avoid a special preachy presentation, we have chosen to integrate it more into our curriculum, with extended learning experiences where digital citizenship content was addressed in context: just in time 5SUPPORTING learning. Our art teacher would discuss copyright, fair use, creative commons and provide appropriate search tools when beginning a derivative project or looking online for inspiration for a new piece. Science and Social Studies teachers discuss plagiarism and how it is not only easier to plagiarize but much easier than ever to verify that something has been plagiarized. Project based learning requires original creations, or attribution. Our daily news show only uses original music created by NETS-T the students using GarageBand, and while students do use Creative Commons photos, they are encouraged to attribute authorship and mix-in other works to make it more original and effective. The 6 classes participating in Rock Our World had a real-life experience working with the topic of tolerance and collaborating through music composition and video chats with other states and countries. Students also receive contextual training as we prepare for activities and analyze communications within our school s content management system. This is a a secure place and students practice safe, courteous communication using the system s social networking tools. For instance, when our inter-school photo contest began with Oxford, Kansas, we talked about privacy issues, copyright and the possible discipline measures taken against those who purported copied photos to be their own. When the judging began, we discussed online teasing and how text-based communications did STANDARD not contain the body language and tonal expression that modify the way something is interpreted. 4 Promote and Model Digital Citizenship & Responsibility Since we run the server, we can track, manage, report and assess all content that has been posted or uploaded.

6 ! page 6 Stone has also took a district leadership role in Project Tomorrow Speak-Up. We used their data for training and planning, and recommended that our school district participate in the survey, which then became a district-wide campaign. We distribute the link each year in s and on our website, and we encourage teachers have their students respond the survey in our labs or minilabs. We have posted our district s Security Officer s presentation on our internal webserver and viewing is required for our staff. Our next step is to create a followup quiz for staff members to take after viewing the presentation. However, it s often the contextually relevant reminders (such as discussing how a current internet scam or virus works) that result in the greatest conceptualization of network responsibility, safety and internet literacy.

7 ! page 7 Professional development and leadership is the foundation of all that we have accomplished at Stone, and the basis for all that we will accomplish in the future. Tools that we have access to will go unused, unless we know how and when to use them. Historically, Stone has provided training and quite a few mini-conferences for the entire district. We have organized and hosted advanced network troubleshooting workshops, many summer sessions of integrating technology into the science classroom, digital video editing, and visual literacy. FL DOE invited the Stone Middle School Choice team to exhibit and present at an Innovation Fair alongside other exemplary K12 programs and academies in As a result of our presentation, there were four school systems that requested Stone Middle School to mentor their schools and help them formulate a unique program plan. Following video chats, site visits, a full day workshop; this relationship culminated with a week long summer training where the emphasis was delivering technology infused learning experiences combined with product development. We embrace the continuous learning model of professional development. Rather than viewing our training as an inservice day event, we view it as just a starting point for the refinement of a skill and knowledge set. Integral to the plan is a structure for revisiting, observing, assisting, and going deeper into the skill over the weeks and months. For instance, followup on Developing a PLN workshop, points were awarded for following, retweeting, and contributing to Twitter for 15 Stone teachers last fall and 12 district teachers following a presentation at Brevard s Technology Conference last year. Our tech specialist has been actively involved in PD leading many sessions at FETC, podcasting, blogging and reconnecting with participants from 4 BETC sessions. Training at Stone is a collaborative task. Even though we have Apple Distinguished Educator and Certified Trainer, training opportunities and leadership is distributed throughout our staff as we identify leaders and put them in charge. We have designated go-to folks for Gradequick, A3, response clickers, podcasting, Web 2.0 and all sorts of other niches in the technology continuum. Each year, the technology staff surveys the teaching staff regarding both the quality of service as well as their needs in addition to soliciting information informally and in small groups. This informs our school technology plan and helps us gauge receptivity to technology adoption. (Because this is such an important component of our successes, there will be far more detail on Professional Development under Tab 11.) Engage Professional Growth and Leadership SUPPORTING NETS-T STANDARD 5

8 ! page 8 The collaboration between our technology department and staff is nothing less than phenomenal. Cooperation and flexibility are keywords when any campus is involved in projectbased learning. At Stone, part of this involves honoring long held traditions for scheduling project due dates, competitions, and the flexibility of loaning equipment or students for individual help or project completion. Since the majority of Stone students are bus students, this helps more students get involved and be successful. This type of collaboration between teachers helps students learn how to manage time, be responsible for makeup work and work as a team with their management (their elders) and their peers. Without this type of collaboration, a campus would be hard pressed to put deep learning into their alloted, fixed 54 minute periods. Collaboration between classes occurs in an asynchronous fashion through our content management system and other Web 2.0 websites. All students can collaborate in digital storytelling or through galleries, tagging, commenting and rating systems. Our administrators have supported collaboration by giving certain departments common lunch periods and our grade level MESH teams common planning periods in our master schedule. This means that planning for cross-curricular projects is much easier, and small group technology training is less complicated to organize in existing small learning communities. Efficient, effective communication is the bedrock of collaboration. As with many campuses, we have become accustomed to using as the backbone of our coordinated efforts. We have also discovered many Web 2.0 resources that help plan the best time for meeting (http://doodle.com/) gathering information (Google Surveys) collaborations (http://etherpad.com; Google Docs). We encourage collaboration through shared, networked campus calendars. To encourage collaboration, administrators, teachers, parents and students need access specific group calendars, school wide calendars, and other calendars of personal interest (sports, holidays, religious events). We employ an open standards calendar format (*.ics) that works with most any calendar program. These calendars can then be viewed independently or aggregated together. We operate our own calendar server, so parents and community members may subscribe or sync their calendars with ours. This also enables us to efficiently republish important dates on our school homepage in a brief list format using an RSS include widget from the STONE M.S.

9 ! page 9 calendar server. Using the RSS feed include feature on our homepage, we also insert a linked list of entries from our Stone Students Rock (a student achievement showcase blog) webpage, ensuring that the content of our homepage changes nearly every day and appears fresh. We have proactively set up and target learning communities at Stone. Depending on the topic and goals for a technology initiative, we may go through existing learning communites (such as grade level teams, departments, or wings) or we create new ones. For example, we have a teacher laptop initiative, that was begun when many teachers were requesting a laptop. Laptops are not only more expensive, but more subject to damage or theft because of their size and mobility so this was an classroom/teacher benefit that had a string attached... To become a part of this cadre, the teacher had to agree to live on their laptop (give up their desktop machine), attend monthly face to face meetings, join Twitter and follow each other, as well as begin using ichat. They also agreed to regular use of the laptop cart or Project-Based Learning Lab. We have 15 teachers in this group and they are growing by leaps and bounds. We have two groups that are exploring the use of ipod Touches: our ExEd Teachers / Administrators and our Music Department both of these groups were initiated by teachers, the first as a result of offering to participate in a pilot, the second as a result of two grants. Yet another small learning community was begun when one of our teachers became excited about what he was able to do with his MacBook Pro. He started his own professional learning community and has a half dozen teachers attending bi weekly after school. Our Choice Team often focuses on technology, as do many of our departmental meetings. We have a SMART Board users group that ran a common blog for a year and we have six teachers that have response system training and are training others. We have enjoyed technology training delivered from our National Board teachers, and are proud to have one of Brevard s two FL Master Digital Educators spread their expertise amongst our staff and students. In order to reach the Discovery School Constellation designation, we have identified 6 of our more tech/multimedia savvy teachers to lead the charge during their planning periods to get everyone registered, familiar with and using this great resource. We have offered several Learning with Technology Classes to our students parents in the evening. More are planned for this spring. STONE M.S.

10 ! page 10 As a school, Stone believes in celebrating success and elevating all students, by providing role models of excellence. One novel way we address this is with a blog that is in it s fifth year: Stone Students Rock!!! Here we document and acknowledge exemplary student successes ranging from classic school competitions to community service to personal hobbies. Individuals and groups are given a stage to be recognized for their achievements and the members of our educational community can subscribe to this newsfeed via RSS. This content is primarily derived from teacher and sponsor press releases sent by , and then repurposed on the student s morning news show, as well as on a 24/7 bulletin board shown on our closed circuit tv cable system underneath the current time and weather widgets. As you can imagine, we are very serious about this and our awards list would be far too long to include here. Highlighting some of the most notable technology-related awards received by Stone students, is the following (abbreviated) list: Grand Award 1st Place Biological Sciences at the International Science and Engineering Fair (9th grader competing against 10th, 11th and 12th graders from around the world): Student did a micro-biology project that included using GIS software to map results of artesian well samples to septic tank sites throughout rural Palm Bay and Malabar. Other national recognitions have come through the Discovery Young Scientist Challenge. A Stone student received the national top prize-a $10,000 scholarship for her genetics science project, "An Investigation of the Factors Affecting Colony Transformation Efficiency Rates" as well as her excellent performance during three days of intense science competition held at the Smithsonian Institution. In a second competition, this student also received another major prize: Travel Channel Dream Science Trip based on her experimental experience and an essay explaining that her dream science trip would be to visit the Roslin Institute in Scotland, where "Dolly" the sheep was cloned. No less than four times our Stone students have made it to the national finals for this Discovery Young Scientist Challenge, which includes smaller cash prizes as well as an allexpense paid trip and tour of Washington, DC. For technology related activities More recently on the national arena, Stone Students have found favor in the ecybermission competition (a free, web-based science, technology, engineering and math competition for students in grades six through nine). The last four years, teams of Stone students have reached the ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS

11 ! page 11 regional finalist level and competed for the top prize at the national competition (also an allexpense paid trip and tour of Washington, DC). The top ecybermission prize in the nation for 2008 and 2009 has been awarded to the Stone Middle School teams. These eight students have each received grand prize packages (in addition to their DC travel/tour) of $8000 each! A Stone Middle School Science and Technology Choice Program student served as a body double for Stephen Hawking in 2007, testing the body positioning and management prior to the famous scientist s zero-gravity flight. Stone Middle School s remotely operated vehicle team, the Stone Submersible Squad (S3), participated in the 2006 Marine Advanced Technology Education Center s Florida regional ROV competition sponsored by Scripps Institute. The competition was held at Adventure Island in Tampa. These student made ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) which are small submarine-like devices with on-board video cameras. Stone was the only middle school in the competition and competed against high school and college teams to take home Third Place! Each year, at a regional/state level, Stone students leverage their technology skills gained in our science research classes to bring home more place awards than any other secondary school. Individual awards are too numerous to list here, but in 2010 Stone was recognized with 46 place awards at the South Area Science and Engineering Fair, and 50% of the students selected (statewide!) to present their research at the 2010 Annual Florida Academy of Sciences meeting were Stone Middle School students (as Florida Junior Academy of Scientists). Last year, one third of the state's presenters were Stone students and in 2008, twenty percent of the students were from Stone. At the 2009 South Brevard Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Stone again took more state fair bids (6), more place awards (39) and more firsts (6) and seconds (9) than any other For technology related activities middle school. In 2009, Stone students won 10 of the 14 first place awards and 9 second place awards, taking a total of 50 place awards. Stone had almost 3 times the 1st place winners than all the other schools combined. We also scored one of the two Best of Shows and one of the two Alternate Best of Shows. There are many other Science and Technology special awards, honors and recognitions that our science research students are involved with (such as Florida Solar Energy Center and Or- ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS

12 ! page 12 lando Science Center), but now we would like to highlight student performance in clubs that are not specifically science research elective students: the Science Olympiad and Lego League. During the recent years, our Science Olympiad team has risen to be 10th (2009) and 11th (2007 and 2006) in Florida s state competitions. Thirty-five Stone Middle School girls were selected to participate in the Society of Women Engineers workshop, WOW! That s Engineering!, at Bayside High School on Saturday, October 3, These girls experienced the creativity and innovation of engineering and technology. They met women engineers and technologists and heard first-hand about these exciting careers. Our school has also had great success with Lego League Robotic competitions and this year had both a boys and a girls team competing at the state level. This year, Stone's Lego League Sponsor (Mrs. Coleman) was one of only 2 coaches in the state of Florida awarded with a Gold Level Presidential Service Award in recognition of her dedication to FIRST LEGO League of Florida. She will be receiving a certificate, special pin, and a letter from President Barack Obama. The technology leadership of Gordon Shupe, Stone Technology Director is an underpinning support of the successes of the students and staff. He is a former science teacher and continues to teach. Mr. Shupe says he 'likes mixing it up with the students, it keeps me young and helps keep me grounded in the reality of classroom teacher responsibilities'. Mr. Shupe also continues to sponsor clubs and is one of the decorated science research team sponsors at Stone. In 1993, he was the co-author of the second highest rated retrofit grant in the state of Florida. In 1994, Mr. Shupe was selected by the National Association of Science Teachers as an Access Excellence Fellow, a career high point that helped shape his current standings in technology and science For technology related activities education. He was awarded a laptop, printer and trip to spend a week in San Francisco as a guest of Genentech, a biotechnology industry leader. He and his colleagues were charged with developing an online community for life science educators- a clearinghouse for developing collaborative projects and sharing exemplary science education resources. In addition to rubbing shoulders with industry leaders and scientists, he was exposed to industry technologists, server/network managers, and given the opportunity to visit the campus of Apple Computer in Cupertino, CA. ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS

13 ! page 13 During the course of the following 5 years, Mr. Shupe served as the Online Project Collaboration Coordinator for Access Excellence, developing online database for Acid Rain/Acid Snow Data collection, Mentornet (a expert teacher/novice teacher 'matching service'), helped develop several interactive online science mysteries and collaborative projects like 'Habitat (shoe) Boxes' for exchanges organized online. Genentech invited him back in 1995 as Genentech Summer Scholar for a month, with several trips to Cupertino, many biochemistry labs, and website development instruction. This better equipped him to provide pioneering web and listserv amenities for Stone. Mr. Shupe began providing professional development through the Florida Institute of Technology FDOE s Center for Excellence and was a Sunshine State Science Benchmarks Project Member. He was also asked to serve on the Florida State NETS Standards Expert Panel and invited to be a part of a National Science Software Review Committee. He served as an adjunct professor at Florida Tech for over 10 years including seven years teaching Science Methods and five years teaching a graduate course in Computer Science Methods. In association with another professor at Florida Tech, he was awarded a $17,000 EPA Grant to develop a National Environmental Science Education Web-based Survey. In 2003, Mr. Shupe received the second major recognition of his career as an Apple Distinguished Educator. This has placed him in an international league of highly creative, innovative educators who are pushing the limits of technology in the classroom. He has been very active in that community and has been an invited alumni attendee of five subsequent summer institutes For technology related activities including an international institute "Global Awareness' held in Berlin and Prague in He is an Apple Certified Trainer and carries the current Final Cut Pro Certification. He has been a keynote speaker at numerous conferences, led many sessions at various subject area conferences as well as FETC and NECC. He recently was the keynote speaker at Full Sail University's itunes U kickoff and a keynote speaker at the Florida Virtual School Online annual conference. Mr. Shupe was the CoProducer of Conference Connections, the official podcast of FETC and NECC , as well as other state educational technology conferences. This summer, he has been invited to be an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Leadership Bootcamp Facilitator, and to direct the effort for live streaming the event on the internet. ACCOMPLISHMENTS, RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS

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